New joiner with an images question

[markgreat]

Hi,
I just joined this group. I'm not a great SEO expert, I only do web
stuff as a bit of a hobby. My normal job is database type stuff. I
currently work for a banking software company.

Anyway, before you fall asleep reading about me, I have a question.

How do you get Google to index your images?

I have a specific example which puzzles me. I have two sites
www.speyside-developments.co.uk and www.land-acquisitions.co.uk. They
both belong to Speyside Developments Ltd but one of the sites is
supposed to be aimed at ordinary people looking for property and the
other at buying and selling land, although they share a lot of
material (including pictures).

If you search google images for "speyside developments" you find some
pictures which are on the land-acquisitions site but none for the
speyside-developments site. In fact I cant find any images for
Speyside Developments at all.

By the way don't blame me if there isn't great separation of the
wording or content of the sites. There should be because there's
content management for both sites. I try in vain to get more and
better wording on each site - you can lead a horse to water...

[planetjeffy]

Alt image tags are how you get Google to index your images. Use a
couple of keyword rich sentences while you are writing them and put
your keywords at the beginning of the sentence. However, I would
focus less on image search and more on the on page optimization. Very
few people search images and images (with proper tags) have very
little effect on your SEO. Your title tags, metatags are poorly
written and the copy and headlines are bad too. Even if this is a
dynamically generated content, you can fix it if you have the will to
get the writers to cooperate (since it will ultimately help them too).

On Sep 7, 5:40 am, markgreat <im_rodg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just joined this group. I'm not a great SEO expert, I only do web
> stuff as a bit of a hobby. My normal job is database type stuff. I
> currently work for a banking software company.
>
> Anyway, before you fall asleep reading about me, I have a question.
>
> How do you get Google to index your images?
>

> I have a specific example which puzzles me. I have two siteswww.speyside-developments.co.ukandwww.land-acquisitions.co.uk. They

[Dave McAnally]

Also, if you have webmaster tools installed (and there's no reason not to), you can opt in to Google's image optimization which basically says you'll let Google index images based on content on the page and their own enhanced Image Labeler:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=48367&hl=en

[markgreat]

I thought the title tags were OK. But you could be right about the
other things. The content (and to some extent tags too) are dynamic.
Do have specific ideas about whats not good?